{"id":12986,"date":"2025-12-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:00:27","slug":"pray-for-priests-dec-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/parish-news\/pray-for-priests-dec-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray for Priests | Dec 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Below are the priests of our diocese for whom we are asked to pray daily.<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Prayer:<\/em><\/strong>
<\/strong>Eternal Father, we lift up to You these and all the priests of the world. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You. In Jesus\u2019s name we pray. Amen<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 1<\/strong>
Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 2<\/strong><\/strong>
Most Rev. John Iffert<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 3<\/strong><\/strong>
Very Rev. Mark Keene, V.G.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 4<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Ross Kelsch<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 5<\/strong><\/strong>
Very Rev. Baiju Kidaagen, V.C., V.F.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 6<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Trinity Knight<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 7<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Sean Kopczynski<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 8<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Conor Kunath<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 9<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Binu Kurian, M.S.T.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December <\/strong>10<\/strong>
Rev. Joshua Lange<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December <\/strong>11<\/strong>
Rev. Douglas Lauer<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 12<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. David Ludwig<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 13<\/strong><\/strong>
Very Rev. Ryan Maher, V.F.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 14<\/strong><\/strong>
Priests who have served St. Joseph Parish<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 15<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. George Mathew, C.R.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 16<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. William Neuhaus<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 17<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Berdinand Nicholas, C.R.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 18<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Gregory Osburg<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 19<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. John Opoku<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 20<\/strong><\/strong>
United States Catholic Conference of Bishops<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 21<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Samuel Owusu<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 22<\/strong><\/strong>
Most Rev. Roger Foys<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 23<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. John Paul, V.C.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 24<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Thomas Picchioni<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 25<\/strong><\/strong>
Rev. Martin Pitstick<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 26<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. Gerald Reinersman<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 27<\/strong>
Rev. Suraj Abraham, C.M.I,\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 2010<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 28<\/strong>
Rev. Joseph Rielage<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 29<\/strong>
Rev. Niby Kannai\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 2005<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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December 30<\/strong>
Rev. Robert Ross, S.J.<\/a><\/em>

December 31<\/strong>
Rev. Aby Thampi, C.M.I.\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 2009<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,74],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news","category-out-in-the-community","category-pray-for-priests","tag-pray-for-priests"],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}